Agustín Pichot has confirmed his resignation as an Argentinian representative on the World Rugby Council, following his defeat to Sir Bill Beaumont in the governing body's chairman election earlier this month.

Championship as another achievement, with the annual competition pitting the nation against Australia, New

Zealand and South Africa.Argentina have three representatives on the World Rugby Council, with Pichot's

The qualifier for the 2021 Women's Cricket World Cup in Sri Lanka has been postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.

initially scheduled to take place from July 3 to 19, can be held.Three places at next year's World Cup in New

Zealand will be available at the 10-team qualifier.Bangladesh, Ireland, Pakistan, West Indies, Sri Lanka

, Thailand, Zimbabwe, Papua New Guinea, the United States and The Netherlands are set to battle it out

for a World Cup berth.New Zealand, Australia, England, South Africa and India have already secured their

These are both important events with the Women's Cricket World Cup qualifier one step away from New Zealand

Beijing 2008 canoe sprint silver medallist René Holten Poulsen has said that athletes who are mentally strong will be the ones who succeed at the re-arranged Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics.

included Austria's Nadine Weratschnig, who hopes to make her canoe slalom Olympic debut next year, and New

Martlew even admitted that despite having gym equipment provided to him by High Performance New Zealand

Double Olympic shot put champion Valerie Adams will have a better chance of winning a third gold and a fourth Olympic medal now that Tokyo 2020 has been postponed, according to her coach Scott Goodman.

Goodman, who is also the Athletics New Zealand high performance director, has said that the 36-year-old

July 2020 date, but she can now comfortably find her peak with an extra year to prepare.Speaking to New

Zealand publication Stuff, Goodman said it works in Adams' favour."

Adams continues to train at home due to New Zealand's restrictions on the use of gyms, with Goodman being

USA Rugby has presented proposals for a new governance model after filing for bankruptcy in March.

 In collaboration with community stakeholders, proposals for a new governance model that would form

youth, collegiate, senior club and international athlete level have been officially presented.If a new

individual entities to administer rugby in their respective groups.If Congress votes to ratify the new

for 2019 in March, with its situation worsened by the pandemic and suspension of Super Rugby, while New

Zealand Rugby revealed that the body is forecasting a revenue decline of up to 70 per cent this year

British Rowing, along with Rowing Canada Aviron, Rowing Australia and Rowing New Zealand, have announced

indoor rowing event launched today alongside Canada, Britain and Australia is a humbling reminder that New

Reports claim up to half of New Zealand Rugby (NZR) staff are set to be made redundant due to the financial

Fifty per cent of the 180-strong workforce at NZR face losing their jobs, according to Radio New Zealand

Zealand that to wholesale staff cuts would be made, but did not mention an exact figure.

Rugby was halted in New Zealand after strict lockdown measures were imposed to contain the spread of

 It has been announced, however, that a New Zealand-only Super Rugby competition could begin in

NZR and the New Zealand Rugby Players’ Association have already agreed to a range of payment changes

New Zealand taekwondo athlete Tom Burns believes his move to South Korea has paid off and helped him

Olympic qualifier at the Gold Coast in Australia for his nation and being officially selected by the New

Zealand Olympic Committee.Burns will be the first male from New Zealand to feature in taekwondo at the

me, in my opinion - your confidence when fighting goes through the roof," Burns said, as reported by New

Zealand-based website Stuff."

After visiting family, Burns caught one of the last flights out of New Zealand in late March before the

The New Zealand Olympic Committee (NZOC) said the road ahead would be "challenging" but that it was well-placed

for the NZOC, national sporting organisations, performance delivery partner High Performance Sport New

Zealand and the athletes that will make up the New Zealand teams to Tokyo 2020, Beijing 2022 and Birmingham

Zealand team is prepared and ready to succeed."

Sport is so important to New Zealand and we look forward to it continuing to play a significant role

Zealand children, while 81 per cent of primary and intermediate schools signed up to use educational

Rugby Australia has appointed Rob Clarke as interim chief executive just hours after Peter Wiggs left his role as director.

what competition structures are going to make most sense and working into our SANZAAR (South Africa, New

Zealand, Australia and Argentina Rugby) partnership to intersect with potential broadcast partners."

but left following a disagreement with interim chair Paul McLean over the recruitment process for the new

 The Australian Capital Territory and Southern New South Wales Rugby Union, Queensland Rugby Union

South Australia and Rugby Tasmania all expressed support for the Board's recent run of decisions, with New

Argentina has been awarded the right to host the first-ever Under-23 Men's Softball World Cup in 2021.

and sit second in the WBSC rankings.They finished fourth at the Under-18 Men's Softball World Cup in New

Zealand earlier this year.The tournament has been created to bridge the gap between the under-18 game

and the senior one.The other new WBSC tournament set to take place in 2021 - the Under-15 Women’s Softball

Hall of Fame member Jarrad Martin has been appointed as the head coach of New Zealand's under-18 men's

the World Baseball Softball Confederation Softball Hall of Fame in 2017.In 1989, Martin pitched for New

Zealand as they won the Junior Men's Softball World Championship - now called the Under-18 World Cup.Jarrad

Martin will guide New Zealand's youngsters at the 2022 World Cup ©WBSCThat team was the last from the

Apart from halting most sport, the lockdown so widely applied amidst the current COVID-19 pandemic has also changed it profoundly. Suddenly all sport is nostalgic.

daughter played on the swing further down the plot.Meanwhile, on the other side of the Atlantic, the new

37.68m.But the event also involved more than 200 mainly young throwers from all around the world, including New

Zealand, Namibia, South Africa, Costa Rica, Sweden, the US and Ireland."

Australia are top of the International Cricket Council (ICC) Test rankings for the first time in four years after replacing India.

annual update published by the ICC, which eliminates results from the 2016-2017 period, Australia lead New

Zealand by one point.India, displaced as the top Test team in the world for the first time since 2016

Sir Bill Beaumont has won a second term as World Rugby chairman, seeing off the challenge of Agustín Pichot.

Rugby Union, Rugby Europe and Rugby Canada all said publicly that they had voted for Sir Bill, while New

Zealand Rugby and Rugby Australia endorsed Pichot as he was expected to receive unanimous support from

Lord Mervyn Davies, Mark Alexander of South African Rugby Union, Rugby Africa President Khaled Babbou, New

Zealand Rugby's Bart Campbell, Gareth Davies of the Welsh Rugby Union, John Jeffrey of Scottish Rugby